Liv

Oskar Torheim once led the Nordic Federation's effort to reverse humanity's sterility. Now he counts frozen embryos in a basement vault and waters his dead wife's garden, waiting for the species to finish dying. Then an underground midwife shows him an ultrasound: a heartbeat, fourteen weeks along, the first in eighteen years. The child's genome could save everyone—or hand absolute power to the minister who controls all fertility research. Hiding her means outrunning a man who never stops looking.